I expected this for a very long time, even before his health update from April or the one from last December and yet I am still stunned.

I remember many many years ago I was imagining what it would be like 40 or 50 years later to listen to an elderly TB reminiscing about old video games and be revered as the giant of the video game industry that he was in much the same way Roger Ebert was in the film industry. Alas, that will never happen. Despite some disagreements I had, I will always admire his unwavering advocacy of consumers' rights. For a long time I thought his insistence on calling his critiques first impressions instead of reviews as petty and ultimately meaningless, but eventually I came to appreciate his meticulousness and overall work ethic. He always strove to be as objective as possible despite the work of a critic being inherently subjective. I think it is fair to say that no other critic in the video game industry was as influential and as beneficial as TB.

I guess it's time to re-watch the Terraria series.